EXACTLY>>>>

I distinctly remember asking R6 this question in the final 2011 NOF meeting in Oly.

"With a nearly identical Tier 1 chinook run-size forecast with roughly the same number of available chinook impacts...
and a nearly identical rec coho season....
and a nearly identical 2C gillnet season....

how is it even remotely possible that the same number of impacts were only able to buy 2 days of gillnetting in 2A/2D last year, but this year it buys FIVE DAYS?"

The response was simply.... that's what the model predicts. No explanation of where the difference actually came from.

Took me about 5 minutes to compare the impact analysis from the year before to figure out for myself that the projected rec impact had been reduced (as I already explained above).

So then I commented....

"Well that either means you guys think we (rec) magically became a lot softer on encountering/handling those kings in a years time.... OR... the gillnetters got cheated the previous year."

Their response.... yep, the gillnetters probably got cheated the previous year.

That's how it went down.... Scout's Honor.